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Game data
Metacritic 91- Released
- 2008-10-28
- User rating
- 4.08 / 5
- Genres
- Shooter, RPG
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- ESRB
- Mature
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Game details · IGDB
Fallout 3 from the creators of the award-winning Oblivion, featuring one of the most realized game worlds ever created. Create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders and other dangers of the Wasteland. Prepare for the future. The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction …
- Released
- 2008
- Genres
- Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Game modes
- Single player
- Engine
- Gamebryo
- Franchise
- Fallout
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
Key facts
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Director
- Todd Howard
- Producers
- Ashley Cheng Gavin Carter
- Designer
- Emil Pagliarulo
- Programmers
- Guy Carver Steve Meister
- Artist
- Istvan Pely
- Writer
- Emil Pagliarulo
- Composer
- Inon Zur
- Series
- Fallout
- Engine
- Gamebryo
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360
- Release
- NA : October 28, 2008 PAL : October 31, 2008
- Genre
- Action role-playing
- Mode
- Single-player
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- fallout.bethesda.net/en/games/fallout-3
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- publication date
- 2008-10-28
- software version identifier
- 1.7.0.3
- review score
- 90/100
- Commons category
- Fallout 3
- hashtag
- fallout3
- social media followers
- 28311
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Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game, which was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, is set in the Washington metropolitan area 200 years after a devastating nuclear war. The player controls a 19 year old character who leaves a fallout shelter in search of their missing father. Fallout 3 features a freely explorable open world, and the player can engage in combat with a variety of weapons. The player can also initiate conversations with non-player characters, and depending on their actions, can affect how other characters perceive them.
The third major installment in the Fallout series, it is the first game to be developed by Bethesda after acquiring the rights to the franchise from Interplay Entertainment. Lead designer and writer Emil Pagliarulo favored an oppressive and bleak atmosphere, and took inspiration from the dialogue in the first Fallout game. Executive producer Todd Howard wanted the combat to be a mix of real-time and turn-based combat, so that it would appeal to both first-person shooter fans and role-playing game fans. Bethesda chose the Washington metropolitan area as the setting, as the studio was based in Rockville, Maryland, a city close to Washington, D.C.